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Honestly, I believe we can't play dominant and assuring football with two-man midfield in the games away from home with our non-intense approach. 1. Energy levels shown by home teams are higher and it is causing us all sort of problems in getting the ball quickly up the final third, especially in...

The Soccer Manager Red Cafe League ​ If you want to join send me (Damien) a PM with your team and username ​ To join just pick a team in this topic and then search in Free online football manager game - Soccer Manager for world id 101474 and apply to that team. The rules are very simple: 1) there...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-41647872 China has entered a "new era" where it should "take centre stage in the world", President Xi Jinping says. The country's rapid progress under "socialism with Chinese characteristics" shows there is "a new choice for other countries", he told the C...

Same premise as Olly's thread. General TV show stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread or to bump threads that haven't been posted in for a decade. If you do talk about a particular show and what happened in it, I request that you put it in spoilers so if someone does decide to watch it they do...

With all the media and so called pundits blasting Mourinho for parking the bus at anfield, but can anyone remind me did we ever played swash buckling football against Liverpool when Fergie was in charge. If my memory serve me correct then i think the answer will be no.I can only remember the smas...

Funny how only he and Klopp seem to think that "kick" (if you can even call it that) was intentional. Pathetic. Probably want to get him retrospectively banned. Red tinted spectacles aside, anyone else think it was deliberate? Source

Starts next week in India. I think England have a comfortably stronger squad than the Euros with the inclusion of Kirby, Gomes and Sessegnon. Kirby and Gomes being the ball playing creative central players I thought we were missing at the Euros. Spain and the other European usual suspect should b...

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/15/entertainment/me-too-twitter-alyssa-milano/index.html Basically a campaign on facebook to make the extend of sexual harassment apparent by sharing this hashtag if you've suffered from it. It's horrifying to be honest - it's basically every woman I know sharing it...

All time Dominoes draft ​ Welcome to the all time dominoes draft. Its a football fantasy draft, where like the popular board game Dominos you have to pick a player which forms a link with the player picked by previous manager. Here are the rules in nice bullet points: We'll all draft 14 players....

All time Dominos draft ​ Welcome to the all time dominos draft. Its a football fantasy draft, where like the popular board game Dominos you have to pick a player which forms a link with the player picked by previous manager. Here are the rules in nice bullet points: We'll all draft 14 players. Ro...

Another quote from a few days earlier: "I finish playing a game and feel a lot of pain. My body starts to feel it, and it no longer brings me that much happiness, it takes a lot more to do the same job." http://www.espnfc.com/orlando-city- t-retirement-and-reveals-interest-in-coaching That's it t...

She was investigating into The Prime Minister of Malta and his family. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/16/investigative-maltese-journalist-killed-car-bomb/ Sickening . That's a political murder.

Don't particularly want this to turn into a rehash of all the other Mourinho/anti-football threads, but am genuinely interested in seeing who can put up with a few displays like Anfield if the upshot is that we win the league, and who doesn't want to play that way under any circumstances? Yes, it...

Shocked there isn’t a thread. I’m sure some could gather some great quotes this weekend. The state of this place you’d think we’d just lost 4-0! Put things into perspective. We ended up 6th last season, 5th the season before. Now it looks like we’re fighting for the title. Also a point at Anfield...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business lions-revised-figures-reveal-uk-490bn-poorer/ Making matters worse, foreign direct investment (FDI) by companies is plummeting. It fell from a £120bn surplus in the first half 2016 to a £25bn deficit over the same period of this year. Click to expand Probably s...

Timo Werner is 21 and 5'11 and a goal machine of a striker. His figures for both Leipzig and Germany have been phenomenal. He'll be someone who will be most sought after the World Cup. Yes, we have Lukaku and Rashford but let's face it Rashford is not a striker like Lukaku, he's more of LF or a R...

http://www.thejournal.ie/graham-linehan-leaves-twitter-3647748-Oct2017/ FATHER TED CO-CREATOR Graham Linehan has left Twitter. Linehan was an early adopter of the platform and his following had grown to nearly 700, 000 after sending 148, 000 tweets. However earlier this week he signalled his inte...

Not sure how long Jose Mourinho will stay at the club, surely another 2/3 seasons atleast, hopefully more - but re: the next manager, I'm almost at a blank. Any names caught your eye, someone you would like to take over, assuming Jose Mourinho has steadied the ship? Pochettino, err Giggs, Ancelot...

https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Jose-mourinho-au-psg-il-ne-dit-pas-non/842504 "I have ambitions and desires to do new things and I don't think I am certain I won't finish my career here, at Manchester". Even though it's not likely for him to leave anytime soon, he chose to say these wo...

Every now and then we see an example of what is happening with Kevin de bruyne right now. It is not the players fault and he is a fantastic player with huge potential to develop over the next few years. However, right now the current thinking is that de bruyne is some sort of unstoppable force. "...

Moby Invictus Moby For the final, we have transformed into a standard 5-2-1-2 formation based on an unbreakable defensive line, all action powerhouses in midfield and a trio of absolute geniuses in attack. Watertight defensive line led by Synth Draft: Final - Moby vs Invictus

So we are set to have the youngest Prime Minister ever and a coalition of right-wing/far-right. Kurz is gonna surely work closely with Orban and the other right-wing government in that area. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2 elect-youngest-eu-leader-in-move-to-the-right

The Soccer Manager Red Cafe League ​ If you want to join send me (Damien) a PM with your team and username ​ To join just pick a team in this topic and then search in Free online football manager game - Soccer Manager for world id 101474 and apply to that team. The rules are very simple: 1) there...

A lot of people (myself included) thought there were a lot of silly criticisms of Guardiola (e.g. a mannequin could've won the treble with Barca) prior to coming to the PL. In his first few months his team was playing some unbelievable football and steaming through teams. Since then they've looke...

It seems to be a widely held assumption on this forum that for football to be entertaining, it is essential that games and competitions are "competitive" and results are unpredictable. This is usually the major argument for the Premier League being the "best" league. Am I alone in finding this fa...

For years Chelsea's transfer record was held up as an example of how well run they were. Well here we are years later and I can't remember a bigger club having a worse time of it. Top scorer in the Premier League - Lukaku Best performing player in the Premier League - De Bruyne And that's with pl...

Reading Roy Keanes old comments on the class of 92 being more a brand than anything else got me thinking. Yes Scholes is a true legend and great player the others wonderful servants but were they really better than others in their positions ? More importantly how important were they to our succes...

Obviously, not the peformance we all wanted, however, injuries to Rojo, Shaw, Ibra, and, more recently, Carrick, Pogba, Fellaini and Bailly meant we fielded a weakened 11 yet Liverpool created as many clear cut chances as ourselves. Anfield is never easy to play at, and we coped well with their a...

How will he fare in his first season? Instant impact making Liverpool serious contenders for top 3 or does he require serious amount of rebuilding? Squad looks awfully fragile when a couple of key players are out so surely this won't be plain sailing for The Normal One?

Not even really talking about match quality to be honest. Just a white knuckle ride for the full match. For me, its probably Arsenal vs United in the semi final replay in 1999. I dont know if I'll ever see a game like it where the momentum swung as much due to so many incidents. Second leg vs Bar...

So starting today, I am pledging 1% of my salary to Common Goal, a collective fund — run by the award-winning NGO streetfootballworld — that supports football charities around the globe. It’s a small gesture that if shared can change the world. I’m asking my fellow professionals to join me in for...

poacher said: ↑ Is Luke Shaw overweight? He looks overweight however people say that he's not overweight but that he's naturally powerfully built, In this day and age with the dietitians and access to gym facilities there is no excuse for a full-time professional to be out of shape especially sin...

RedCafe tries to be a good place to talk about football. We don't like to ban, to warn, to censor opinions or kill debate. But we do have limits, and we do ask posters to help us enforce them. Intended or not, sexist posts derail threads, cause pointless arguments, and make it harder for posters...

This guy: Mackay was expected to become manager of Premier League club Crystal Palace in August 2014, but dropped out of contention after Cardiff City sent a dossier to the Football Association alleging misconduct by Mackay and sporting director Iain Moody. 29 It subsequently Malky Mackay named...

Anyone getting one? Anyone seen any good bundles online? There was talk of a curry bundle with 3 free games, but I cannot find it on their website. Will I be the only person in the UK actually bothering to get one?

Hurricane Ophelia has strengthened as it tracks towards Ireland This is going to be worse than the earthquake of 2012. In all seriousness, careful on the roads lads and those of us in South and Western coastal areas, stow away the garden furniture, let the dog in and batten down the hatches! Not...

A lot of people might be familiar with Cahill's "box the corner flag" celebration but after his goal against Syria, he did a quick airplane gesture and made a T symbol with his hands instead, apparently to appease his sponsors, Tripadeal. What do people think of this? I'd really fecking hate for...

• Swiss attorney general also opens proceedings against Jérôme Valcke • Investigation relates to World Cup media rights for 2026 and 2030 The chairman of high-spending Paris Saint-Germain and the powerful sports broadcaster beIN, both owned by Qatar state funds, has been accused in Switzerland of...

Lionel Messi 's 'signing bonus' for staying at Barcelona could be as high as a record-breaking £80million and the club hope to have a naming-rights sponsor for the Nou Camp as early as next season to help them pay for it. It is normal for clubs to add a signing-on fee or a renewal bonus in contra...

Surely the 'big game' thing is largely a media construction, pedalled by Sky etc to add theatre to the game? I mean, I appreciate that we all look forward to them, but we have created a construct where the importance of them is so over-stated now. We keep hearing that nothing matters until we pla...

Falcao said after the game: "We knew what was happening in the other matches, we were playing with (the knowledge of) the other results and in that moment (I tried) to transmit that (to Peru)." Tapia also admitted in an interview on Wednesday that he had discussed the result of the game with Falc...

Former AC Milan striker George Weah is awaiting the result of Liberia's election as he vies to replace Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as the country's president. The 51-year-old is already a senator and is standing for the Congress for Democratic Change party. Despite some reports saying he has already wo...

Theres an upcoming documentary on Arsenals win at Anfield to be released next month. https://www.theguardian.com/footbal s-arsenal-dramatic-title-win-at-anfield-video Obviously not an Arsenal fan, but this could be a good watch. Best finish to a league season ever.

https://nationalaccordnewspaper.com ge-weah-wins-liberian-presidential-elections/ Weah will succeed Africa’s first elected female president and Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Ex-football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai are the main contenders in the race to succeed...

Jose Mourinho ready to sign new £65m five-year deal at Old Trafford Mourinho has impressed at Manchester United since replacing Louis van Gaal and signing a three-year deal in 2016. MANCHESTER UNITED want to tie down Jose Mourinho to a new £65million five-year deal. And the Red Devils boss is rea...